If we can halve the risk to the mother while doubling the risk to the embryo - I'm all for it.
Well, you might as well take that to the logical conclusion, reducing the risk to the mother to zero while ensuring disaster to the embryo, by not getting her pregnant in the first place.
True, but in that case he will not be able to easily pass his genes to the next generation, and as such, it is not a viable evolutionary choice.
Bah, everyone knows the real achievement is getting a frist post!
Or posting on a silly thread just to get the achiev...
Is what is needed. Look, most people understand that they need to take anything they read on wikipedia with a grain of salt; a website that anybody can edit has to be.
Would it be so... I have seen LOTS of examples of that not being the case (lots of unsubstantiated writing thats just copying of Wikipedia, rather than the required original research). What you call excessive warnings, I call the minimun sanity standard to prevent at least the ones that read the article to taking it at face value.
First, why would you think that ISPs aren't fighting for market share with business connections?
Second, the reason business connections cost more is that generally you get a lot more.
Actually, there is a third reason why business connections cost more: the business ARE less price sensitive on that regard than common consumers. Almost all that can be diferentiated and sold as "business expenses" usually comes with higher costs (and usually, though not always, higher margins for providers).
Could it just be possible that it isn't whether it's "government" or "a corporation" or a "public-private partnership" that makes the difference between well-done and corrupt, but the vision and integrity of the people carrying out the project?
It's the quality of the people who make the quality of the world. Whether they organize themselves into "governments" or "corporations" or "anarcho-syndicates" to pursue their goals is totally secondary to the essential matter of who's doing it.
Well, Yes and No... True, were we ALL angels, the organization model chosen would not matter. Since we aren't ALL like that (and even if you can increase the standards of the average, you are going to end up having a few rotten apples there) some organizations do provide better resilience to corruption than others...
They might even give the OS away free
Frankly, I've always wondered why they don't.
Besides the obvious (bulk revenue from the OS is not something they can just ignore) there are some other reasons: A truly free OS (no strings attached) would be something they couldn't control. Anyone could make their adaptations (even without source code, by replacing some components). This would negate the advantage they have on the Apps market (Office).
A somewhat less free OS (some restrictions on what you could do with the OS) would still suffer from problems (like security, virus, etc.) that would require them to work on it, but if it was free without any revenue stream attached.
Paper trees are always re-planted after being cut down (it would get unsustainable very quickly if this didn't happen) - and generally also have a lot of recycled material in the final product. The tree-cutting damage comes from the food industry clearing the way for beef cows or corn crops.
True, but not the whole truth. Deforestation to create a new crop is always worse than sustainable forests (even if grown-for-paper), but grown-for-paper forests are usually not sustainable (mono-cultures, weak bio-diversity, usually increased water consumption).
I am from a country with a LARGE paper production industry, and I've seen first hand the razing of indigenous species to create paper-friendly forests... It wasn't pretty, even if the new forests are denser than before, with more trees, the bio-diversity took a nose-dive.
A quick poll of the six friends I generally play WoW with reveals that the most irritating mob in the game is the hyena.
/agreed.
I hate hyenas.
Both of you are Horde players, aren't you? On my horde chars, granted, hyenas are a pest, but Murlocs are MUCH worse than that to lower level (up to 30) Alliance chars.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
